Transponders for highway tolls can speed a morning commute, or automatically nab you for speeding.
Rigid mark-to-market accounting is similar to a highway that has a speed limit and a speed minimum.
Forecasters can predict the speed a solar storm travels and its strength, but the north-south orientation is the wild card.
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Once the snowball starts rolling, it picks up speed a frightening pace.
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That allowed Nvidia to speed a new graphics chip to market every six to nine months, a pace the company has sustained ever since.
Consultancies are also springing up, selling companies on ways to use Amazon for things like online backup systems and database clusters to speed a Web site's performance.
Experiments measured the forces and acceleration of a regulation, adult-size-5 ball propelled repeatedly at a magnesium dummy-like head at 18 meters per second, which is considered the average speed a ball is kicked by nonprofessional players.
The two biggest U.S. auto makers have agreed to jointly develop a nine-speed and a 10-speed automatic transmission for use in their portfolios of cars, crossovers, sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks.
Digital marketing and digital disruption affords a speed, a real-time use with lesser cost for marketers.
Actually, while the top speed of a Viper reportedly is about 200 mph, Russian authorities today said that the meteor came in at a speed of about 30, 000 to 45, 000 mph.
What about the fact that, in addition to a six-speed automatic, this wagon can be had with a six-speed manual transmission, a device that's quickly becoming a drivers-only shibboleth?
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They can elect a consistent speed at a higher price or variable speeds for a discounted rate.
When he wanted to find out if Aristotle was wrong to say that a small body would fall at a different speed from a large body, he didn't look the answer up in an old book about falling objects.
We also believe that economic growth will start to improve, going from a half-speed recovery to a more normal speed recovery.
So the idea of renting a pack to speed through a snowy forest for a weekend sounded dreamy.
For years, Intel and AMD dueled back and forth for control of the megahertz crown, implying that a higher clock speed equaled a better chip.
Ankiel was the Cardinals' center fielder in May 2009 when he slammed into a fence at full speed on a running catch and ended up with whiplash and a shoulder injury.
The assumptions of a 230 mph wind speed and a 1.2 psi rapid pressure decrease in about 1 second along with large and fast missiles is quite a force to design against.
Those characteristics can include a brief dip in air pressure, a change in wind direction, a change in wind speed, a rise in air temperature or a dip in ultraviolet light reaching the rover.
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My test vehicle came with a six-speed manual transmission (a seven-speed automatic is also available).
In a world moving at Internet speed, a customer's objectives are constantly being revised, so programmers have to be able to hit a moving target.
Casual games and mobile apps provide a new route for small firms - or even bedroom coders - to reach a global audience at high speed with a smaller outlay.
The design is simple: it's just a plastic shell with a shutter button, a dial for controlling shutter speed and a hand grip -- the sort you'd normally find on a compact camera.
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Third-generation wireless (the first two were analog and the current version of digital) can move data at 384 kilobits a second, six times the speed of a good computer modem.
Critics say flash orders give a select group of high-speed traders a window into the direction of the market, giving them the ability to trade at lightning speeds ahead of less fleet-footed investors.
They report speeds of 110 metres a second, comfortably competitive with the speed of a hard disk.
Calves swimming in echelon showed a 28% increase in average swim speed and a 19% increase in distance per stroke.
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The first real-world tests are now confirming that the iPhone 5 download speed is a big leap up from the iPhone 4S download speed.
And then once I pass the city, or pass another sign with a new distance, I'll change my speed by a mile or two per hour and do the same thing.
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